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Windows 7: New Drive, but no boot

So a friend of mine has a Lenovo X140e laptop and it came with an SSD of 128GB. He wanted a larger 512GB and bought one. Gave it to me and I cloned the drive using AOMEI. Everything went fine and completed, but when I installed the 512GB drive it will not boot. The Lenovo screen appears then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left cornet and that's all it does.

Reading around it seems like cloning going from small to large has issues that I am not familiar with. Can anyone here explain and help me to get this fixed?

Some information.
System is Windows 7
8GB ram
Using another computer and slaving the drives in the partition is active.
They do not have a Windows 7 disk, but I do. Pro
Tried repairing the system using my Win7, but still no joy.

How did you clone did you copy disk to disk or copy partitions? If you copy partitions it often doesn't copy the boot sector. I would recline but use a different program to do it be sure to create and boot from the clone disk so nothing is locked by Windows

So I would do what you mentioned, but how would one then get that extra space extended to the Windows operating partition? My understanding is that usually it has to be right after the operating system partition in order for Computer Management to "extend" it.

I'll try which ever, again, I can just go and do a clone again and then follow your instructions above, but got to get that extra space to extend the Windows 7 partition so that they can have a lot more room.

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